The number of disaffected Democrats who are leaving the party in favor of President Donald Trump’s GOP continues to grow.
Even young women of color, often seen as Kamala Harris’ most reliable voting bloc, are starting to defect. Audrey McNeal, a 22-year-old who served as a delegate for the 2020 and 2024 Democratic National Convention, recently became among the latest to announce her political realignment.
According to Newsmax:
McNeal said her departure was forged by the DNC where Harris was crowned the nominee without having won the primary or any of the delegates that were President Joe Biden’s.
“After reflecting on my time at the DNC, I realized it was no longer the party of free speech and civil liberties that it used to be,” she said in the video. “In fact, Patrick Henry once said that the liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.
“For the rulers of the Democratic Party elite to install Kamala Harris as the presidential nominee via stripping the vote of 14 million Americans, including their own delegates such as myself, well that was a decision in a transaction that was concealed.”
“And now I’m happy to say that in officially joining the Republican Party as a constitutional conservative.”
Trump has boasted a number of disenfranchised former Democrats, including Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Gabbard, D-Hawaii.
Her X account now consists of posts reflecting her newfound ideology:
I was a lifelong democrat, elected to the DNC twice.
I’m voting Trump/Vance in November and joining the Republican party as a Constitutional conservative –
we have to conserve the freedoms (1A & 2A) we already have outlined in our Constitution. pic.twitter.com/pMk6wMwlx4
— Audrey (@Audreyjmcneal) October 26, 2024
“It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears” – Louis Brandeis, US Supreme Court Justice https://t.co/R7Xx8XybGe
— Audrey (@Audreyjmcneal) October 26, 2024
McNeal also shared this post from swimmer and women’s sports advocate Riley Gaines.
Tonight we prayed over President Trump. We prayed for his safety, his strength, a unified country, and God's will to be done. 🙏🏼
May God continue to bless Donald Trump pic.twitter.com/YlECaL31Gf
— Riley Gaines (@Riley_Gaines_) October 24, 2024
Breitbart provided additional coverage of her recent statement:
McNeal continued:
You see, after I was elected in March which was before Joe Biden’s debate, I wanted to go to the DNC because I wanted answers on free speech issues, the border, and the economy. However, reflecting on my time at the DNC I realized it was no longer the party of free speech and civil liberties it used to be. In fact, Patrick Henry once said, ‘The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be secure when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.’ And for the rulers of the Democratic Party elite to install Kamala Harris as the presidential nominee via stripping the vote of 14 million Americans including their own delegates such as myself, well that was a decision and a transaction that was concealed. And now I’m happy to say that I’m officially joining the Republican Party as a constitutional conservative.
It is interesting to note that recent Gallup polling showed more Americans either identify as Republicans or are more in line with the GOP than Democrats, Breitbart News reported.
Here’s some additional coverage of the ongoing trend:
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